*THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER* First Time Watching MOVIE REACTION 

"Forty years I've been at sea. A war at sea. A war with no battles, no monuments... only casualties" Such a great line to sum up the cold war

This movie has aged amazingly well.

"I'm a politician which means I'm a cheat and a liar. When I'm not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops." Best line in the movie.

I served in the Navy and worked on the helicopter that dropped the torpedo late in the movie. I love this movie.

I'm a retired U.S. navy submariner and I served 17 years in the submarine force. I've ridden the Dallas and a few more subs in her class for inspections. I was lucky enough to serve on both fast attack and ballistic missile subs. For training exercises, we used to do emergency blows from test depth which was fun. I love this movie but the quintessential submarine movie for me is Das Boat.

I was so sad when Sam Neill died, but when a character expresses such lovable and relatable motives, it's often a plot device to get the audience invested in a character who's going to die to remind them that the stakes are real.

One of the greatest lines in cinema history: "You arrogant ass! You've killed us!"

The cast in this movie is outrageous, top to bottom. So good.

Every time a lovable sidekick dies in any movie, my mother and father look at each other and one of them says "I would have liked to see Montana."

The shot of the sub breaching the surface in the final sub battle is one of my favorite film shots ever. It's just so epic.

Love, love, love this movie! As for Sam Neill’s character, I use the mental retcon that he survives, and the next time you see him, he’s digging up raptor bones in… Montana! 😂

The accents may be all over the place, but very interesting fact: "Armageddon" is one of, or the only, word pronounced the same and with the same meaning as between English and Russian, so it is the word that acts as a pivot between the part of the film wherein the Russians speak exclusively in Russian amongst themselves and that part of the film wherein the Russians speak English amongst themselves. Very cool touch by the director, in my opinion, at least.

"I would liked to have seen Montana." The saddest seven words ever spoken in a movie.

Scott Glen is Fantastic in this!!!His character gave me goose-bumps during the dialogue exchange between him and Jack Ryan.Their scenes together were Lessons in Acting!!!

The reason Ramius wanted to get through the underwater canyons so quickly, was a tactical decision. He likely knew that there would be other Soviet submarines hunting for him, as they left their ports heading at top speed. Had Ramius decided to go slow through the canyons as the plans were designed, it's likely those hunter subs would be waiting for him when he came out the otherside, where they would have the advantage.

I like how they handle the language in this movie they start speaking in Russian with subtitles then zoom out transitioning to speaking in english. This way the actors can concentrate on their roles and we can enjoy Sean Connery's Scottish accent. Btw, this movie is based one in a series of famous post cold war thrillers novels by Tom Clancy. Jack Ryan is played by Harrison Ford in the other adaptations that you might enjoy.

I love the "you lost another sub" line... and many others. The whole movie is... murky, you never know until the end who was up to what. Enjoyed your reaction as always.

Sean Connery, the only man that could get away with playing a Russian with a Scottish accent. Being from and seeing this at a theatre in Montana, I remember the cheer that went up when Sam Neills character said he wanted to live there.

The 'ping' they are talking about is a burst of active sonar. Passive sonar is about just listening and seeing what you can hear, like they do most of the time in the movie. Active sonar is when you send out a massive burst of sound, and then listen as it bounces off things. That way you can determine range and with multiple pings you can also determine course and speed. The trick is other guy can hear the sound as well, and so you give yourself away if you are trying to be stealthy. Great reaction, by the way. One of my favorite movies.

In the blink-and-you’ll-miss-her role of Caroline Ryan, Jack’s wife, is Gates McFadden, known everywhere else as Dr. Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation. 8:15 “Sonar” is using sound to find someone, but there are two kinds: “Active sonar” is when the sub (or whoever) sends out “pings” and they determine where something is by listening to it bounce off it. “Passive sonar” is what Jonesy is doing: figuring out what things are and where they are just by listening to the sounds they make.

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Great reaction! Here is some real historical background on the story which isn't commonly known. Tom Clancy probably based The Hunt for Red October in part on the true story of Chester M. "Whitey" Mack (1931-2008, Penn State class of '53), who was the first commander of the Sturgeon-class attack submarine USS Lapon in the late 1960s. (His nickname isn't a racial thing, but a reference to his hair color, just to be clear.) When the Russians launched their new Yankee-Class nuclear missile submarines in 1969, the US Navy had no idea of their capabilities. Along with other subs, Whitey Mack and the Lapon headed for the Barents Sea with orders to learn what they could about the Yankee-Class boats. The Lapon found a Yankee on the sonar, lost track of it, estimated where it would be, found it again, and then followed it for 47 days straight. They learned everything the US Navy wanted to know about the boat and its practices, even recognizing when different officers were running the sub. While they were tailing it, a New York Times story leaked the juicy news that the US Navy was actively shadowing a Soviet sub, and for 24 hours afterwards the Soviet skipper went nuts, doing every kind of possible maneuver to make sure nobody was following him, but he never detected the Lapon. The term "Crazy Ivan" didn't appear until a year later, but it refers to a sub making abrupt turns in order to see whether anyone is behind it, as that sub did with the Lapon. When the Lapon finally broke off to return home, the Navy sent a message to all subs in the Atlantic: "Get out of the way. Whitey's coming through." On returning home to Norfolk, the Lapon was awarded the Presidential Unit Commendation for extraordinary heroism, and Mack received the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest peace-time award the Navy had.

I highly recommend "Das Boot" from 1981.

I served on a U.S. Navy anti-submarine Frigate at the time this movie is set in. Some things to know: 1) U.S. submarines are extremely quiet with everything being insulated against sound making them incredibly difficult to detect. 2) Soviet submarines(now Russian of course) are not nearly as quiet and therefore easily detectable. 3) There are two types of sonar, passive and active. Passive sonar uses hydrophones to listen for sounds. That is what Jonesy is using. Active sonar is sending out a sound wave and then listening for the echo off a steel hull. This is referred to as pinging because of the distinctive sound. Active sonar can give you the bearing and distance to target but it also can be used by the target to get your bearing and distance from them. One unrealistic thing about this movie is the speed at which the Naval ships are deployed. For the ship I was on it took 2 days to build up enough pressure in the boilers to get underway. Overall though a good movie that was pretty faithful to the source material.

You need to watch Das Boot (1981) Directors Cut , its hailed as the most historically accurate and realistic submarine movie in existence, and is also either nominated or won 6 academy awards and is an outright masterpiece.

Fun video! As for recco's, "Patriot Games" is another good Clancy novel, moviefied in 1992, with Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan. And someone else mentioned "Das Boot" - I'll second that as one of the most realistic depictions of submarine life and warfare in a film. It's on a WWII era German sub, though. So it has the additional aspect of a confined, claustrophic feeling that really comes across as you watch.

Yo Jen.. seeing as you're doing the Connery comeback phase... Check out 'The Name of the Rose' in which he plays a kind of Monk detective in the middle ages who speaks with Scottish accent in Italy. It's tense, bleak and scary. Also, 'The Untouchables' in which he plays an Irish cop in 1930's Chicago who speaks with a kind of Irish accent that keeps turning Scottish. He gets away with it because he's Sean, obviously. Both films are really good.

submarines operate with two types of sonar, active and passive. active sonar sends out an audio pulse "pinging" and it will bounce off anything in the area, telling them exactly where any other ships are. passive is listening only. you can manually set the the active sonar to emit only a single ping. the high-low "bell sound" of the torpedoes is active sonar.

Remember at the beginning of the movie... he said he couldn't sleep on the plane... at the end he was sleeping like a baby...

Another submarine movie to consider is _Crimson Tide_ starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman. The tension is also similar. Cheers 🍻

You are the perfect analytical intelligent person to review this movie at its best.

The "don't respond well to bullets" line reminds me of volume one of Jim Steranko's book "The History of Comics" saying that shooting a gun in a space ship would have disastrous consequences and that it justified the use of hand to hand combat including elegant, swashbuckling scenes of sword fighting depicted on the covers of pulp science fiction books and magazines and the classic Flash Gordon comic strip.

Oh man, this is one of my favorite films of all time -- thank you for reacting to this film! Connery and Baldwin here are legends!

If you remember in the pilot episode of Firefly, while they are being chased by Reavers, they say they are going to pull an "Ivan." Wash says "Here's something you can't do." and flips one of the engines around making Serenity instantly spin around.

20:27 In the novel, Jack Ryan was supposed to be just a liason between the US government and the Royal Navy group helping out with the hunt. The CIA was flying out a team who were going to be the experts handling the defection, but their helicopter crashed on the way out to the fleet. Ryan got pulled into the operation because he was the only guy they had left.

12:55 --- You missed that because it was so subtle... Basically Ramius is threatening them with the same fate as Putin..

I saw this in the theater with a friend who was missile chief of a US Navy "boomer" sub. I worked on the construction of three classes of submarines from '90 to '94. Those contributed to my interest in this subject. The living environment has some parallels to space travel.

13:28 "That's Some Turbulence" Well, Jen, he's flying in an AWACS plane, and because of that sensor dish on top of the fuselage, any kind of crosswind would toss you around like you're in a clothes dryer

The actor who plays the captain on the Dallas, Scott Glenn, was allowed on a real US sub to observe the a real captain. Glenn was so impressed with the relaxed way the real captain operated that he just copied the real captain for his role on the Dallas.

This is one of my favorite movies! I’ve lost count of how many times I have watched it. “One ping only.” Can’t say that without doing Sean Connery’s accent. 😂

"Admiral, someone has given a loaded pistol to Alec Baldwin!" "Mother of God"

22:22 Yo tell em Marine!! Jack never got to serve but he still knows how to bark orders.

Hey Jen !! The next Jack Ryan movie is "Patriot Games" which is also very good !! My favorite is the one after that, "Clear and Present Danger"!! You should react to BOTH of the next 2 !! (Oh.. don't forget about "The Towering Inferno" !!! It's an ALL-TIME CLASSIC !!

If you want to see a different kind of sub movie I recommend Operation Petticoat with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis

At 32:55, the jelly beans was a President Reagan reference. The book was published in 1984. Reagan loved jelly beans. Eating jelly beans in front of a Soviet official was a slight insult.

Even Jeffery Jones' speech about being able to park 100 warheads on the white house lawn was Bone-chilling.The screenplay to this Film was Impeccable and Thought-Provoking and Intelligent.

As others have suggested, Das Boot is the ultimate submarine movie and well worth a watch (any version, but the director's cut in German is 🙌) For something more accessible to American audiences - U-571, with Mathew McConaughey and Harvey Keitel (among others) For a submarine comedy - Down Periscope, with Kelsey Grammer

Sam Neill's character's last words "I would like to have seen Montana" and then his character's opening scene in Jurisic Park, is in Montana

The Hunt for Red October is a novel by Tom Clancy. The idea for the novel started with was the attempt of Soviet enlisted sailors to steal their navy ship and sail it to Norway while their officers were on other duty ashore. The ship was intercepted and the enlisted sailors were arrested. Tom Clancy took this true story as the starting point for a story in which the captain of a Soviet submarine stole his sub and took it to the west. The Hunt for Red October is fiction, but one of Tom Clancy's best novels.

This is one of those movies I think I've probably seen 100+ times in my life. It used to be on TV 2-3 times a week and my mom loved Sean Connery, and my dad loved the whole espionage submarine thing. So it was always on. I dunno, there's a strange comfort to this movie for me.

Jack Ryan series is probably my favorite non-fantasy/scifi book series

Clancy was the master of the Cold War thrillers. “Patriot Games,” and “Clear And Present Danger” also have the Jack Ryan character played by Harrison Ford. They are both worth watching. Ben Afleck played him in “The Sum of All Fears,” but it’s a weak script. Skip the Netflix series; while based on the character, it doesn’t follow the books. The book (and movie) has the best definition of a politician I’ve ever heard: “If I’m not kissing babies, I’m stealing their lollipops.” RIP Richard Jordan! Ronald Reagan’s fondness for jelly beans was legend, so everyone in government during his terms had jellybeans around. It was a cool detail in the movie. Some other sub movies: “Crimson Tide,” “Das Boot,” and “The Bedford Incident.”

Fun fact : Soviet subs are painted green on the inside - more soothing for the crew - not kidding either. Production designers decided on a dark scheme so the audience could distinguish one side from the other.

The sonar man saying he heard singing is a callback to Enemy Below. 9:20

Low key MVP for me was the Sonar Operator, without his skills they would have never found the Red October.

_"I love a good wall safe."_ - Never thought I'd hear that in my life. But can't disagree.

Tupelo's torpedo came back to his own boat & blew it up.

I got another military movie for you to react to. The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimitz goes back to December 6th 1941. Filmed on the Nimitz. One of my favorites.

In the novel, which this film is based on, Ryan pretty much rules out that Marko Ramius is out to launch against the US quite early in the story, given that he could launch any time and didn't need to be off the coast to do so. Highly recommend you read the book to understand more about how modern submarine warfare works. Tom Clancy also wrote SSN, a non-fiction work and an inside look at US nuclear attack submarines. The recent trend in submarine design is looking at sonar stealth designs as opposed to just silent running. The next film, Patriot Games, is the origin story of Jack Ryan (but played by Harrison Ford). It is also the second book in the Jack Ryan series begun by The Hunt for Red October. Probably the best submarine film is Das Boot (1981), which takes place on a German U-boat (U-96) during 1941. A more recent TV series (2018) by the same name is a sequel to the film. This time it is U-616 during 1942. A fourth season was recently greenlit.

Another fun fact, Admiral Painter, the Skipper of the carrier, was Fred D. Thompson, who happened to have another job as a US Senator from the State of Tennessee from 1994 - 2003. He played in several other movies as well.

If you enjoy this, consider watching 'Crimson Tide'. 15:23 'He went down in a chopper accident' That's why he hates turbulence. 25:35 'I don't know what a ping is' modern sonar is passive, they are listening for the sound of submarines, that is why a silent one is so terrifying. Old style sonar used echolocation, making a noise and analysing the echo reflected back. That noise was called a 'Ping'.

Alec Baldwin does really excellent impressions!!All the episodes of SNL when he first Hosted have All been nominated for Emmys.I've seen him do an Al Pacino Scarface-like impression,Marlon Brando and various accents and characterizations.He's just remarkable.Love his Sean Connery!!!

People forget just how tense the Nuclear situation was in the early to mid 1980s. A couple of Pop cultural examples include Sting's "If the Russians love their Children too" and Nena's "99 (Red) Luftballons". Reagan called the USSR "an Evil Empire" and joked about starting a Nuclear War. This movie was conceived and planned during that time...

15:48 "That's Super Fast, Isn't It?" For a submarine as big as Red October and in such a tight space that they're in, it is super fast. A submarine that's the size of the Red October is nearly impossible to maneuver at such high speeds in such close quarters

What I really liked about Alex Baldwin's version of Jack Ryan was that while Harrison Ford would mostly play him as action hero(which was great fun), Red October gave us the analyst. It helped that in life I had a father(USAF Major Wallace Zimmerman, of beloved memory)who was military intelligence(from the early years of our involvement in Vietnam through to his retirement in the mid 70s).

The Dallas is a Los Angeles class attack sub, one of the three types I worked in constructing.

I just realized that this is a science fiction movie. Magnetohydrodynamics is a real thing, and is a factor involved in trying to create a productive fusion generator, but is impractical (so far as we know) for propulsion of anything as big as a submarine. This movie is built on the premise that someone found a way to make it work. So, it's science fiction.

Reading the book, it gave a sense of "will Ramius launch, or defect?". In the movie, they do their best to give the same suspense (and do it well), but no one thought Connery would launch! Still a great movie.

I LOVE this movie! I like watching people react to it because it has a lot of moving parts so reactors have to pay attention to keep up with the plot. You did a really good job of that.

“I would like to have seen Montana.” Don’t worry, Dr. Grant, you will

I loved the on screen subtitles. At lunch the Officer says to Connery displayed as "He didn't sleep on his teeth did he?" 🤣

12:28 "That _is_ weird. Why wouldn't he just do it? Why did he have to leave a letter?" Because he knew that his officers would have those among them who would entertain thoughts of returning to Russia if he didn't, and he knew they could not afford such divided priorities. He had to make sure that they understood that trying to go back meant being put to death and the only hope of survival meant making a concerted effort to get to the US.

Jen, the Captain of the Carrier USS Enterprise is played by the same actor who payed the holodeck character Moriarity in Star Trek the Next Generation. Moriarity is Captain of the Enterprise.

This is my son's favorite movie. He's almost 12.

IMO, this was the best of the Jack Ryan movies. But I'd read the books for the others before seeing the movie versions so I was mostly just upset that they changed things from the book. To be fair, they changed a lot in this one from the book, but I think it really improved the story and tightened up the pacing. This was the movie that started me reading the books - I saw it in the theater when it came out. Yeah, great tense story, good characters, so many lines I like to quote. Fun watching you watch it!

I was a SONAR tech like Jonsey aboard the 637 class nuclear submarine USS Pargo. It is not loud aboard the boat(they are called boats and not subs) . Most of the SONAR stuff they did in the movie is not even close to true. It was an interesting six years though.

Saddest line? " I would like to have seen Montana ". Tons of great sub movies out there Jen. Lots of Capt Nemo. Gene Hackman has Crimson tide. Harrison Ford has K19. Cary Grant has Operation petticoat. WWI, WWII, cold war and some sci-fi. The H L Hunley, US Civil War, first successful sub attack. Sank USS Housatonic. Based on true story.

Red October was still damaged by the torpedo attack because of the force of the water displaced when the torpedo struck the side of the canyon. Torpedoes fit fit really well in that "almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" axiom. I don't know why, but watching Red October's crew see the battle unfold beneath them kinda gets me. There's a couple comedy beats, but watching their moment of grief is poignant when you think about what they *think* just happened - their captain and officers saved them from a deadly radiation dose and then submerged to give up their lives to keep the ship from being captured by the US Navy, decided to make a fight of it and gave the Americans hell before being sunk. It's touching watching them all take off their caps. That was the last great Cold War thriller to be made while still under the shadow of the Cold War (or Cold War One as we should probably call it).

One of my all time favorite movies! I can still quote huge parts of it off the top of my head.

30:17 - No, the torpedo collided with the Red October but did not detonate (what you see are torpedo parts and debris). Torpedoes are designed to "arm itself" at the last few seconds before impact and within close proximity to its target. The reason is because you don't want to risk premature detonation if, for example, the torpedo is traveling under commercial ships or underwater rocks, etc. Since Ramius moved the Red October closer to the torpedo, it didn't have a chance to arm itself before smacking into the Red October.

I was a submarine sonar technician. The submarine's baffles are the region of the 360 degree display that is taken up by the submarine itself. I was on an Ohio class submarine. We had a blind spot that we remedied by using "towed arrays". Those are listening devices that are towed behind the submarine, to listen to the baffle region. The only problem is that their placement prevented us knowing the direction of any sound. If we needed to figure out where a sound was coming from, we had to "check our baffles". That entailed maneuvering the submarine at least 30 degrees either port (left), or starboard (right). That way, if we moved closer to or farther from the sound, we knew where it was. None of what I told you is classified information. I did have a Secret clearance while I served, and to this day, I have never divulged any information that would compromise the security of the nation I served. Oh, and you wondered how loud it would be on board a submarine. We had to be as quiet as possible because stealth was our number one priority. That's why they call us the silent service.

Just before the final torpedo hits the Konovalov, there's a single frame shot of the tip of the torpedo with a red Soviet star on it.

Now that you’ve seen the movie, the novel of the same name is a great entrance into the world of Tom Clancy, even though chronologically it’s not the first one. In it, Ramius becomes a friend of the family to the Ryans, and ‘Uncle Marco’ to the little girl, if memory serves (been a long time since I read it in the 80s, but I think that’s right). Great reaction and I hope you find great enjoyment in the books.

This is a year old, but in case no one has mentioned it, Fred Thompson (the actor who says "Russians never take a dump without a plan," ran for President of the United States in 2008. At one point in the primaries, he was polling at about 25%.

At the movies, when the captain surrendered the submarine, the whole audience cheered.

The Hunt for Red October is Tom Clancy's best novel and was made into the best of the Tom Clancy movies. The rest devolved into action flicks with a ton of jingoism.

When Scott Glenn's character hands Ramius his gun and he takes it.Did you catch the very slight wink Sean Connery gives him.That wasn't in the script.That's acting!!!

Being a former Squid (US Navy sailor) myself, love me some "Red October." I read the book before the movie came out, and was surprised how faithfully it was adapted. You need to do a reaction to "A Few Good Men." Another Navy related film with a great ensemble cast that was on regular rotation while we were underway on deployments.

This movie was a phenomenon when it came out. It was the last year of the Cold War. At that time it was quite obvious the Soviet Union was losing the war and their iron clad grasp on their satellites. A few years later I read the novel, my first Tom Clancy book, while on our high school class trip to Toronto.

The Hunt for Red October - the second best submarine movie after Das Boot (The Boat) from 1981.

A ping is a sonar ping. Its a sounding that gives range to a hard object that resonates from metal. Its acrive sonar that whennyou do it your hunting a target. But you guve away your position.

14:49 - Niles from The Nanny.

Stellan Skarsgård looks so young here. Good catch on him playing another Russian on Chernobyl. And, of course, he’s also known for Pirates of the Caribbean and the MCU

Incredible movie that should be seen on the big screen. Watched it at least six times in the theater. The underwater scenes and the sweeping music... Alec was a good Jack Ryan, but Harrison cemented the role.

Skip puts his leg prosthetic on the drawer just like in the book.

Fred Dalton Thompson was also a U.S. senator and once ran for President.

Acting 101!!!No need to pay for a class at some University.Just watch Sean Connery's Perfect Performance in this!!!He's perfected the Fine Art of "In the Moment" acting.Even that scene I just watched where he's calculating the torpedo in the water impact and when to turn from running into the underwater cliff.The look on his face!!!Remarkable!!I actually trusted him even if his own crew didn't.

Gotta love Sean Connery speaking Russian with a Scottish accent.

Great movie!! Great reaction jen!! Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!!...👍👍👍

Absolutely one of my favorite movies. I've read the book and was in the edge of my seat. The screenwriter definitely captured the spirit of the book while tightening the narrative a bit.